Moon in Its Flight: Stories by Gilbert Sorrentinoby Sorrentino, Gilbert

In these dark yet comic and unsentimental tales, the American dream is presented as little more than deluded hedonism. Comedy and glimmers of hope, if not redemption, shine amid the loss and waste as the error-prone people of the stories move through an urban purgatory where love and innocence are often thwarted, lost, or twisted by distorted motives, nostalgia, and cliche.